, Another 6 students kidnapped in Aba
From AMOS DUNIA, Abuja
Saturday, October 2, 2010


As residents of Abia State and all Nigerians bask in the euphoria of the release of 15 pupils of a private school in Aba, six students have again been kidnapped in Abia State. The victims are students of Federal Government College, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State.
It was gathered that the abducted students were going back to school when gunmen ambushed their bus at Ohanze, in Obingwa Local Government Area and took them hostage.

According to the driver of the students’ bus, whose identity could not be ascertained immediately, “when it appeared to the hoodlums that I hesitated to stop, they shot at me and one of the bullets hit my hand and I had to stop. They ordered me out of my vehicle at gunpoint and took the students along with it.”
The driver said the police at Umuobiakwa, in Eastern Ngwa, were alerted when the incident occured, but the matter was not followed up immediately. He said if the police had acted immediately, the abductors would have been tracked down.

Meanwhile, the kidnappers have asked for N2 million ransom. They also threatened to kill the students if their demand was not met and in reasonable time. 
Parents of the affected students have appealed to the kidnappers to release their wards so that they would go back to school and resume academic work. They said they had no money to meet the ransom demand.
When contacted, the PPRO, Abia State Police Command, Mr. Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the incident. He said that efforts were on to effect the release of the students.



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Lagos - Nigeria police freed four secondary school girls on Saturday, a few days after they were abducted by gunmen and only a day after 15 other schoolchildren were set free.

"Six students of the Federal Government Girls College, Ikot-Ekpene, travelling back from Lagos to their school in a public bus were kidnapped early this week by gunmen," Abia state police spokesperson Geofrey Ogbonna said.

Four of the girls were rescued in a police operation at Onitsha-Ngwa, a border village between Abia and neighbouring Akwa Ibom State, he said.

"The kidnappers ran away with the two remaining students," he added.

Along with the four students, a man and a woman who had been kidnapped by the gunmen earlier were also rescued, he added.

Gunmen had kidnapped and held four local journalists for a week in the same area in July, Ogbonna recalled.

A local community leader in Aba, Danny Ubani, confirmed to AFP the release of the kiidnapped girls on Saturday.

On Friday morning, troops and police freed a group of 15 school children who had been kidnapped in their school bus on Monday.

The hijacking of the children took place on the outskirts of the commercial city of Aba, in Abia State, in Nigeria's oil-rich south.

The kidnappers demanded a 20-million-naira ransom, and parents of some of the children on Thursday begged the abductors to release them, saying they could not afford to pay the money.

Much of Aba city was shut down this week after the hijacking out of fears of further kidnappings.

Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has seen scores of kidnappings in recent years, often by criminal gangs seeking ransom payments but also by militants demanding a fairer distribution of oil revenue.

Most kidnappings initially involved foreign oil workers, but more recently the attackers have also targeted the children and relatives of wealthy Nigerians.

Most of those abducted were freed unharmed, often after the payment of a ransom.


- AFP


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Watch out this will become daily news soon

everyday for the thieves but their day of ultimate judgment is only around the corner

Not Aba. . . It was Ikot Ekpene. Which is not Igboland, but Ibibioland. My mother hails from that town.

@MaziUche i wonder why you are defending Aba in this issue? The kidnapping of the 6 FGC Ikot Ekpene students happened at Ukpakiri area of Abia state. Aba and in fact Abia state is a disaster area due bad leadership on the side of state govt and shady traditional rulers of Ngwa land.

For everyone's info; Ikot Ekpene is in AKWA IBOM State not Cross River, in fact its about 15mins drive from Aba. however, that was when the road was good.